Please, help with the dwl520rev.E firmware!!!

[Marcos Schonfeld]

Hi everybody, first of all, thanks for your answers. But i discovered a new
method to get the hostap running:
First I have to boot windows so that the card initializes fine, then re-boot
(re-boot,  no power down the PC) and start linux.
Then the network service does try the configuration of the wlan0 and load
the modules that is in modules.conf as alias wlan0.
Then if I reboot the linux (without power-down the PC) the driver works fine
too.
In resume, the configuration I had works fine if a boot windows and then
reboot and start linux.
I don't have anything more to say that windows saved me!!!

----- Original Message ----- 
From: <glenngreenfield at adelphia.net>
To: "Marcos Schonfeld" <mschonfeld at ubp.edu.ar>
Sent: Monday, May 10, 2004 7:02 PM
Subject: Re: Please, help with the dwl520rev.E firmware!!!


> You need to rmmod the drivers BEFORE rebooting/shutting down or the card
gets all hosed up.  I can't remember the exact sequence and it's not
possible for me to test it out ATM.  Just do:
>
> iwconfig wlan0 down
> rmmod hostap_pci
> rmmod hostap_crypt_wep
> rmmod (the other driver)
>
> If you have the sequence wrong it won't let you rmmod the drivers but they
definitely need to be unloaded first!  Then just add a script to unload the
drivers for you.
> >
> > From: "Marcos Schonfeld" <mschonfeld at ubp.edu.ar>
> > Date: 2004/05/10 Mon PM 03:41:12 MDT
> > To: "hostap mailing list" <hostap at shmoo.com>
> > Subject: Please, help with the dwl520rev.E firmware!!!
> >
> > In my previous posts I didn't get any answer, so please I would thanks a
lot
> > that somebody help me with this problem
> > I load the module hostap_pci, download the firmware files, and then
ifconfig
> > wlan0 up.
> > Some times I can't download the firmware, so I reboot the PC and some
times
> > all wokrs fine, but when I halt the PC, in the next boot the problems
> > appears again.
> > In some cases I have to boot WinXP (yes, I have a winxp partition) to
get
> > the card works fine, so then I boot linux and all works fine again.
> > I imagine you are laugh at my case, but it's true. I suppose that the
winxp
> > driver reinitializes the card so then I can run hostap on linux.
> > Has anybody get into these sort of truble?
> > Has anybody a solution for my case?
> > What are the correct firmware files for my dwl-520 rev.E card?
> >
> > dmesg output:
> >
> > hostap_crypt: registered algorithm 'NULL'
> > hostap_pci: 0.2.0 - 2004-02-15 (Jouni Malinen <jkmaline at cc.hut.fi>)
> > PCI: Found IRQ 11 for device 00:0d.0
> > PCI: Sharing IRQ 11 with 01:00.0
> > hostap_pci: Registered netdevice wifi0
> > wifi0: Original COR value: 0x0
> > wifi0: COR sreset timeout
> > wifi0: __hfa384x_cmd_no_wait(6) - timeout - reg=0x8c80
> > hostap_pci: first command failed - assuming card does not have primary
> > firmware
> > hostap_pci: assuming no Primary image in flash - card initialization not
> > completed
> > wifi0: test Genesis mode with HCR 0x1f
> > wifi0: Original COR value: 0x80
> > wifi0: COR sreset timeout
> > Readback test failed, HCR 0x1f write 00 e1 a1 ff read 00 ce a1 ce
> > wifi0: test Genesis mode with HCR 0x0f
> > wifi0: Original COR value: 0xa1
> > wifi0: COR sreset timeout
> > Readback test succeeded, HCR 0x0f
> > wifi0: Intersil Prism2.5 PCI: mem=0xf3000000, irq=11
> > wifi0: registered netdevice wlan0
> > prism2_download: dl_cmd=4 start_addr=0x003f0000 num_areas=3
> > wifi0: test Genesis mode with HCR 0x0f
> > wifi0: Original COR value: 0x0
> > wifi0: COR sreset timeout
> > Readback test succeeded, HCR 0x0f
> > prism2_hw_init: initialized in 0 ms
> > wifi0: valid PDA not found
> > wifi0: NIC: id=0x8000 v0.0.1
> > wifi0: PRI: id=0x15 v1.1.2
> > Could not get RID for component STA
> > wifi0: Failed to read STA f/w version - only Primary f/w present
> > wlan0: CMD=0x0001 => res=0x7f, resp0=0x0001
> > wlan0: MAC port 0 enabling failed
> > wlan0: could not enable MAC port
> > wifi0: Original COR value: 0x1
> >
> > Other way is to modprobe the module (hostap_pci) and then download the
> > firmware with que hostap_fw_load utility:
> >
> > # hostap_fw_load wlan0
> > Downloading secondary (station) firmware /etc/firmware/rf010704.hex
> > srec summary for rf010704.hex
> > Included file name: RF010704.HEX
> > Component: 0x001f 1.7.4 (station firmware)
> > ioctl[PRISM2_IOCTL_HOSTAPD]: No data available
> > STAID not available (maybe running PRI-only)
> > ioctl[PRISM2_IOCTL_HOSTAPD]: No data available
> > ioctl[PRISM2_IOCTL_HOSTAPD]: No data available
> > Could not read wlan PDA. This requires PRISM2_DOWNLOAD_SUPPORT
definition in
> > driver/module/hostap_config.h.
> >
> > But in fact I have PRISM2_DOWNLOAD_SUPPORT in the driver.
> >
> > Thanks a lot
> >
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>
> glenn greenfield
>